A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the project site on Monday reports that no worker was seen on the site as the place was deserted, leaving two abandoned earth moving machines.
The site had no sign post to tell people about the multi-million naira project while the entrance to the dam site had been overgrown by weeds.
Mr Peter Onah, a farmer whose farm was along the Adada River road, told NAN that in the past four months he had not seen anybody on the site.
`` I do not know why they have stopped coming. When they started they were coming everyday but since they fenced some part of the site with barbed-wire, I have not seen anybody there again.
``They left their caterpillar there. May be government have not paid them that may be why they stopped work,’’ he said.
A civil servant in the area, who pleaded anonymity, said that it would be unfair to the people of Nsukka Zone if the Adada dam project was abandoned.
``During the flagging-off ceremony, government said that the project would be finished within 24 months but it is almost a year and nothing has been done.
``I don’t know whether the contractor had been paid by government or he decided to abandon work on the site,’’ he said.
NAN recalls that the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Dr Godknows Igali, had represented the Federal Government during the earth-breaking ceremony of the project.
He said that the project when finished, would be Federal Government's biggest project in the Nsukka zone since the establishment of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, over 50 years ago.
Igali also said that the contractor handling the project was one of the best in Nigeria and would deliver as expected in 24 months. (NAN)
No comments:
Post a Comment